The PHP development team released a new version of PHP called 5.2.3. Sorry it took some time to blog about it but I had a problem testing it. There was a problem getting it compiled for Lighttpd (the new webserver in the documentation set). It took me a while as it wasn’t quite clear why it didn’t work properly but I found out that the ‘make install’ script has changed to rename the fastcgi version of php to php-cgi and have a cli version of the php binary. This wasn’t the case when using the previous version where the php binary was also usable as a fastcgi. So I had to change the documentation as well.